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and the real story behind greece being the assumption around the world has been that greece got into a big financial problem. they were paying too many social entitlement payments to their people. they got under it. they borrowed money to cover it and then they got in too deep. and they got the bailout money and somehow it didn't fix it. and you keep hearing we're going to become greece. >> right. >> hal: it's the gdp versus debt idea. which is stupid. you find out the real story behind greece -- which again, not to get too much like lee camp where you start to lose your money and try to remain funny, but at the same time you are like what the hell -- the greece idea is we'll give you this money but you have to cut your social entitlements. we'll give you this but you have to cut these ridiculous entitlement programs. >> entitlement for social protection? >> hal: it was all kinds of stuff like that. unemployment insurance, their equivalent of medical payments -- it was crappy, but they agreed to it because they were in such dire straits. so the european union says okay we'll do this
and the real story behind greece being the assumption around the world has been that greece got into a big financial problem. they were paying too many social entitlement payments to their people. they got under it. they borrowed money to cover it and then they got in too deep. and they got the bailout money and somehow it didn't fix it. and you keep hearing we're going to become greece. >> right. >> hal: it's the gdp versus debt idea. which is stupid. you find out the real story...
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we're not in a situation like greece. they're going to say greece, and first of all italy has shown solvency even though that prime minister recently stepped down. they've shown a path of sol sentcysolvency. >> cenk: it's a disaster disastrous way to go because the last time they shut down the government, they were blamed for it. it's a bad way to play for it, except for the fact that i think it's going to work because they're not dealing with bill clinton. they're dealing with barack obama, and barack obama has shown 99 out of 100 times that i'm not sure what the one other time is that if threatened he will cave. that's what he does. he's threatening. >> they're threatening the white house. they're also threatening their senate colleagues, their democratic senate colleagues. they're saying to the rest of the senate which they're a minority, they're saying listen, if we don't work something without we're prepared to shut the government down. it's to try to get the senate back on their heels, too. >> cenk: if you're a demo
we're not in a situation like greece. they're going to say greece, and first of all italy has shown solvency even though that prime minister recently stepped down. they've shown a path of sol sentcysolvency. >> cenk: it's a disaster disastrous way to go because the last time they shut down the government, they were blamed for it. it's a bad way to play for it, except for the fact that i think it's going to work because they're not dealing with bill clinton. they're dealing with barack...
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in greece it is around 150. >> jennifer: wow. >> and the u.s. government debt to gdp ratio, lower than canada. lower than germany. much, much lower than japan. and japan has been spending decade after decade of a very high ratio where nobody things japan is going to default. >> jennifer: so that comparison -- those debt to gdp comparisons are very interesting in light of the alarm bells the republicans are often sending up. there was a jobs report out today, which was the creation of about 150,000. were you encouraged by that? and what was it protend for the president's second term. >> what it protends is we are still at a growth. we have had that pace for about two years. we have brought 5.8 million additional private-sector jobs into the economy. we're still down 4 million relative to the 2008 peak. so you have to say, yes, solid. yes, consistent. but moderate. there are a couple of pieces in the news of the report today that were kind of interesting -- >> jennifer: quickly though. >> wage growth picked up and hours picked up. and the fact tha
in greece it is around 150. >> jennifer: wow. >> and the u.s. government debt to gdp ratio, lower than canada. lower than germany. much, much lower than japan. and japan has been spending decade after decade of a very high ratio where nobody things japan is going to default. >> jennifer: so that comparison -- those debt to gdp comparisons are very interesting in light of the alarm bells the republicans are often sending up. there was a jobs report out today, which was the...
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french president lost his recollection bid yesterday in france, and greece also has seen turnover. i'm wondering if it's a referendum on austerity and what is the truth about austerity versus stimulus? >> yes, i do a lot of work internationally as well. today i spoke to 700 world bank officials from all over the world, and one of the things we talked about is the recent elections in france and greece. is a difference between the short-term and structural. i think europe has tried to cut too much too past. while at the same time we vice president done enough. you need to address both. you need targeted investments to try to get the economy going, help deal with unemployment and under employment but that needs to be coupled with cuts. that mean social insurance reforms defense cuts and constraint constraints, comprehensive tax reform phased in, in an appropriate manner so you don't undercut the economy today, but you have a real major impact over time. >> so how important is it for the government to in addition to cutting long-term and dealing with that structural issue, to invest st
french president lost his recollection bid yesterday in france, and greece also has seen turnover. i'm wondering if it's a referendum on austerity and what is the truth about austerity versus stimulus? >> yes, i do a lot of work internationally as well. today i spoke to 700 world bank officials from all over the world, and one of the things we talked about is the recent elections in france and greece. is a difference between the short-term and structural. i think europe has tried to cut...
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it's not working in greece or europe. you've got to create jobs in order to grow yourself out of the problems that we've got here and create jobs programs and rebuild the economy and the way to rebuild the economy is not to give more money to the top 1% in this country and give them more power and wealth at the expense of the 99%. i hope that americans are looking at what's going on in spain right now and saying that this country. trickle down does not work here. >> jennifer: data is important in terms of what works and doesn't work to move an economy forward. i would think everybody would agree you have to balance your budget at some point but the question is how and when that happens and whether there is a way to do it that allows you to invest in your human capital also. austerity measures here in the u.s. have meant a lot of fewer public employees which serve our citizens and of course, your union represents so many of those. has the dwindling membership, the cutting of government services, has that -- you feel dimini
it's not working in greece or europe. you've got to create jobs in order to grow yourself out of the problems that we've got here and create jobs programs and rebuild the economy and the way to rebuild the economy is not to give more money to the top 1% in this country and give them more power and wealth at the expense of the 99%. i hope that americans are looking at what's going on in spain right now and saying that this country. trickle down does not work here. >> jennifer: data is...
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a 68-year-old who has been acting as a bus monitor on a beaus in greece, new york. the kids on that bus were vicious to her, as you're about to see. they call her dumb ass, it was as s and every other name you can imagine. here's the video. >> you're so fat. >> ii know. >> your fat. >> you're so fat. you take the whole dang seat. >> oh, my god your glasses you fat ass. put your glasses back on. >> we're going to turn into patrol. >> tell her to put her sunglasses back on. you look like a troll. >> cenk: that went on for ten brutal minutes. they said you're so ugly, nobody would want to be near you. that's probably why everybody in your family killed themselves. something along those lines. it turns out one of her sons committed suicide. it's devastating horrible. the local administrator, the the assistant superintendent had this to say. >> we were able to confirm that the woman featured is a greece district employee. we would investigate and contact the greece police department to conduct their own investigation. >> cenk: look, i don't know if the police should get
a 68-year-old who has been acting as a bus monitor on a beaus in greece, new york. the kids on that bus were vicious to her, as you're about to see. they call her dumb ass, it was as s and every other name you can imagine. here's the video. >> you're so fat. >> ii know. >> your fat. >> you're so fat. you take the whole dang seat. >> oh, my god your glasses you fat ass. put your glasses back on. >> we're going to turn into patrol. >> tell her to put her...
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greece. obviously they're rejecting these austerity measures in some ways, you know, the same point we were saying robert reich made this weekend. how they got to 4% unemployment, right, was having the rich pay their fair share in investing. the exact opposite of what romney is proposing. >> romney followed the bush highway. when they went down the bush highway of cutting taxes and at the same time trying to cut back on services for people that the money actually matters to, yeah, this is the rebellion they get. the rebellion that could end up bringing down the euro in greece. you don't have your population expect a certain standard of living throughout their lives and then say i'm sorry. that's all done now. because we won't tax the rich a little more. >> stephanie: i think that the 99% move, the occupy movement, i could be an overly happy clapy liberal, i think it is a perfect storm for president obama don't you? >> i do. if nothing else, it will get people energized. i mean as long as they
greece. obviously they're rejecting these austerity measures in some ways, you know, the same point we were saying robert reich made this weekend. how they got to 4% unemployment, right, was having the rich pay their fair share in investing. the exact opposite of what romney is proposing. >> romney followed the bush highway. when they went down the bush highway of cutting taxes and at the same time trying to cut back on services for people that the money actually matters to, yeah, this is...
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let's not continue a failed exercise. >> one of scott walker's many excuses is blames greece. the guy takes no accountability for anything. if you want to blame these shadow forces of what is going on in wisconsin, we should look at europe. cut social programs give tax breaks to corporations from out of state, and look what has hand. wisconsin is prof that these policies don't work, that cutting programs for the middle class, and the safety net for the middle class at the very time that it needs it the most just doesn't work and wisconsin has 28 days to make up its mind and i think you'll see a different governor come june. >> analogizing calling your state a petri dish, not a good metaphor. >> yeah. >> graeme zielinski thanks for spending some time with us tonight. >> thank you so, you guys grew up together. yes, since third grade... what are you lookin' at? not looking at i anything... we're not good enough for you. must be supermodels? what do you model gloves? brad, eat a snickers. why? 'cause you get a little angry when you're hungry. better? [ male announcer ] you're not
let's not continue a failed exercise. >> one of scott walker's many excuses is blames greece. the guy takes no accountability for anything. if you want to blame these shadow forces of what is going on in wisconsin, we should look at europe. cut social programs give tax breaks to corporations from out of state, and look what has hand. wisconsin is prof that these policies don't work, that cutting programs for the middle class, and the safety net for the middle class at the very time that...
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and i think greece will have to be dropped out. >> out of the union, or their debt has to be dealt with -- >> their debt is already -- i think they are going to have to leave the euro. >> wow. what happens to us if that happens? >> it partly depends on how the rest of europe cooks. if it contains it which means lots of money from the central bank more money printing and if our federal reserve deals with panic here not so bad. europe is a customer but we only sell about 2% of what we need to europe so we can handle it. spirals into a full-blown financial crisis of course nobody is safe. but it has been a race between us and them to see who can do worse in this crisis and at the moment they are winning. >> it's good for us from our own little silo but we're not in a silo obviously, so it will impact us. you talked about the financial transactions tax, that might be one step that they could do but certainly not enough. >> right, and that's a longer-term issue. the problem is not raising more money or slowing down hot money. there is an unsustainable position. there is 50-plus% percent yout
and i think greece will have to be dropped out. >> out of the union, or their debt has to be dealt with -- >> their debt is already -- i think they are going to have to leave the euro. >> wow. what happens to us if that happens? >> it partly depends on how the rest of europe cooks. if it contains it which means lots of money from the central bank more money printing and if our federal reserve deals with panic here not so bad. europe is a customer but we only sell about...
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it's not greece. greece is a separate case. a lot of europe is in that downward spiral because of austerity economics. the president ought to say the republicans stand for two principles that don't work, austerity economics, and trickle down economics, and we know why innocent doe work. >> john: it's amazing considering our g.o.p. friends made pro growth their mantra out of the frank luntz machine. they're being anti-growth. a number of commentators including republicans said the g.o.p. can't give grounds to the president on taxes because their identity as the anti-tax party is all that is oh holding them together any more. do you think that's right sir? do we see two more years of this? >> that's exactly right. that's the only thing they have. otherwise, you've got the religious right in battle with republicans who have the tea partiesers who want to go in one direction shrinking government, and then deficit hawks. you've got republicans all over the place. they don't know what to do. the only thing that is holding they will t
it's not greece. greece is a separate case. a lot of europe is in that downward spiral because of austerity economics. the president ought to say the republicans stand for two principles that don't work, austerity economics, and trickle down economics, and we know why innocent doe work. >> john: it's amazing considering our g.o.p. friends made pro growth their mantra out of the frank luntz machine. they're being anti-growth. a number of commentators including republicans said the g.o.p....
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but germany is still driving austerity through all of spain and italy and greece. so what is going to happen there and does that drag us out. >> just as they said greece won't need a bailout, they are saying the exact same thing about spain. it's very difficult to make the numbers add up. italy can probably get through this be it's very hard to see how spain meets his deficit targets, gets people back to work and save itself banks, without massive help or defaulting on its debt or getting people to take some sort of writedown. >> i want to put this into context. the unemployment in spain is 24%. this is depression era stuff. spain you think about going there drinking sangria and having a siesta. but 24%? >> that's like us in the great depression. it's not going to be a pleasant society. and it is spreading. look at the uk. a double-dip recession. even if they revised the numbers. >> the only thing that will get rupert murdoch off of the front page is a double dip recession. look is canes back? has he been proven right through all of this? >> i think so. he never le
but germany is still driving austerity through all of spain and italy and greece. so what is going to happen there and does that drag us out. >> just as they said greece won't need a bailout, they are saying the exact same thing about spain. it's very difficult to make the numbers add up. italy can probably get through this be it's very hard to see how spain meets his deficit targets, gets people back to work and save itself banks, without massive help or defaulting on its debt or getting...
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when you see that in greece. you see it in hungary spain clearly people of the united states fear that level of instability, and they seem to be doing very little to seem to dilute it. >> cenk: i think what is happening long-term figures like buffet are turning to the koch brothers and going, what are you doing you smock.s? we say historyic healthcare reform. and they didn't throw a fig leaf on gun control and call it gun reform. you don't want that. let's pretend to fix it and be close to the money. >> much of it an automated. legally they have to think about profits. >> cenk: exactly. >> and their lobbyists are saying they have lobbyists who have to think that way. their lobbyists make sure that what happens is what we're seeing, and in other words there is very little way to break that cycle right now because it's on auto pilot. >> cenk: it is, i think the last thing is we built these robots. you know these sci-fi movies where they built the robots and they take over, and if has happened. only they're called c
when you see that in greece. you see it in hungary spain clearly people of the united states fear that level of instability, and they seem to be doing very little to seem to dilute it. >> cenk: i think what is happening long-term figures like buffet are turning to the koch brothers and going, what are you doing you smock.s? we say historyic healthcare reform. and they didn't throw a fig leaf on gun control and call it gun reform. you don't want that. let's pretend to fix it and be close...
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youth unemployment in spain and greece is over 55%. the battle joke, i'm partially irish is back in ireland what is ireland's leading export? the irish. as soon as you get your university degree, you leave. >> cenk: tough times ahead. i wish we had some real regulators in washington, one of the old regulators who did his job, william black. thank you. >> that you can cenk. >> cenk: when we come back, a football player who's head was a mess. there's an amazing story about that and theism pact on his family. >> there is a big risk. >> there is huge risk. >> it's not worth it for me to not have a very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. >>liberal and proud of it. >> cenk: junior seau was one of the best defensive players to play football.
youth unemployment in spain and greece is over 55%. the battle joke, i'm partially irish is back in ireland what is ireland's leading export? the irish. as soon as you get your university degree, you leave. >> cenk: tough times ahead. i wish we had some real regulators in washington, one of the old regulators who did his job, william black. thank you. >> that you can cenk. >> cenk: when we come back, a football player who's head was a mess. there's an amazing story about that...
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new president in france and a new prime minister in greece both of them the french and the greece citizens rejecting austerity measurements saying governments ought to spend more, not spending less. maybe that message will trickle down here to the united states. who knows? we have lots to talk about today. we will take your calls, too at 866-55 press. and here in the studio with us team press peter okay burn. >> hi, there. >> dan henning? >> bill, good morning. >> proudly wearing his ohio state university hat? >> thank you for that. >> and the road trip and cyprian boulding. i can't see. >> he's got it on. absolutely. >> all right. guys, good to see you. we talked a week or so ago about maybe doing away with the pinney? right? canned has shown the wayne. the sglufrnings leads on things like this. canada last week did get rid of the penney. here is a reporter from the canadian press, steven lambert telling us something we talked about is what happened like 99 -- 2.99$299 or $3.03. how do you pay for that? it's easy he said. cash registers will round up or round down purchases so if you buy
new president in france and a new prime minister in greece both of them the french and the greece citizens rejecting austerity measurements saying governments ought to spend more, not spending less. maybe that message will trickle down here to the united states. who knows? we have lots to talk about today. we will take your calls, too at 866-55 press. and here in the studio with us team press peter okay burn. >> hi, there. >> dan henning? >> bill, good morning. >>...
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why is that not sufficient now. >> greece, who went through this default. it was a pretty small country. spain is a very large country. they have a huge amount of debt, and there is this concern when push comes to shove in the u.s. the federal reserve, when we had our crisis, federal reserve treasury, essentially two people acting very decisively back in 2007, 2008, the recent history of european crisis is that they will dillydally. they have this unwieldy if they're making policies for 27 countries. they have 27 different political relationships. they have to meet, they have a summit. they stumble from one thing to another and they don't do anything decisive. and then domestic parties try to undermine it afterwards. they have an unified party but they don't have an unified system or fiscal policy so people don't trust when they say they've solved the problem or have the firepower to deal with it that they do. >> the european response at one level very similar. they both threw a lot of money to the banking system to restore the banks to solve ventcy here we
why is that not sufficient now. >> greece, who went through this default. it was a pretty small country. spain is a very large country. they have a huge amount of debt, and there is this concern when push comes to shove in the u.s. the federal reserve, when we had our crisis, federal reserve treasury, essentially two people acting very decisively back in 2007, 2008, the recent history of european crisis is that they will dillydally. they have this unwieldy if they're making policies for...
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interest for greece to remain in the euro zone while respecting its commitments to reform. we recognize the sacrifices that the great people have made and european leaders understand the need to provide support if the greek people choose to remain in the euro zone. but the greek people also need to recognize that their hardships will likely be worse if they choose to exit from the euro zone. >> austerity sucks. >> obama: countries with large debt burdens carry out large fiscal reforms. economic growth and job creation. as some countries have discovered it's marched to rein in deficit and debt if your economy is not growing. it's a positive thing that they're moving in that direction and they're working to put in place a growth agenda along side responsible fiscal-- >> we should not follow the grecian formula. [laughing] >> obama: decisions are tough but europe has the capacity to make them and they have our support. their success is good for us and the sooner they act and more decisive and concrete their actions the sooner people and markets will retain confidence and.in th
interest for greece to remain in the euro zone while respecting its commitments to reform. we recognize the sacrifices that the great people have made and european leaders understand the need to provide support if the greek people choose to remain in the euro zone. but the greek people also need to recognize that their hardships will likely be worse if they choose to exit from the euro zone. >> austerity sucks. >> obama: countries with large debt burdens carry out large fiscal...
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it is the austerity measures and they keep saying we don't want to be greece. right, right. >> stop doing that. >> a lot of our -- economically, we're closer to the circumstances they found themselves in britain. the reason we truly did better and came out of the recession faster than they did and with relative ease compared to where they were was because we didn't do as many austerity measures. we should have done more. our stimulus should have been bigger. but by not doing any -- britain delayed their escape from the recession by at least three years. >> stephanie: right. >> and now they're coming around to it finally. but -- we had more of a danger of slipping into the area that you know, britain felt itself in more so than greece. >> stephanie: more importantly, love letter for jim from julie in seattle. jim, tell your man jim he looks stylish and handsome with his new highlights and shorter hairdo. >> did you get highlights? >> no. it is just more gray. >> little just for men? >> stephanie: something. it is fabulous. some love letters from girls this morni
it is the austerity measures and they keep saying we don't want to be greece. right, right. >> stop doing that. >> a lot of our -- economically, we're closer to the circumstances they found themselves in britain. the reason we truly did better and came out of the recession faster than they did and with relative ease compared to where they were was because we didn't do as many austerity measures. we should have done more. our stimulus should have been bigger. but by not doing any --...
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has a big seal of the city of greece new york, up near rochester and gives a prayer. it is overwhelmingly christian. the supreme court has just taken that case to hear it next fall. >> bill: whoa. >> it is a big opportunity for them to either do the right thing which is to say no, no, no this is not good. nobody should feel like a second class citizen if they're not a christian living in greece, new york, or to do damage to the whole meaning of what the separation of church and state is all about. >> bill: this is a case filed by americans united against city of greece. >> correct. file on behalf an atheist and a jewish woman. >> bill: now in front of the supreme court. >> with five catholics on the court. watch out! >> we're watching. >> bill: when we come back, your calls welcome at 1-866-55-press. and barry want to ask you about the republican candidate for lieutenant-governor in virginia. talk about e.w. jackson. >> announcer: download podcasts at bill press.com and listen anytime, anywhere. this is the "bill press show." >> has the time finally come for real immi
has a big seal of the city of greece new york, up near rochester and gives a prayer. it is overwhelmingly christian. the supreme court has just taken that case to hear it next fall. >> bill: whoa. >> it is a big opportunity for them to either do the right thing which is to say no, no, no this is not good. nobody should feel like a second class citizen if they're not a christian living in greece, new york, or to do damage to the whole meaning of what the separation of church and...
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> if you read your history, you know austerities plunked the depression deeper. 21% unemployment in greece. ireland, the poster child back up to 15% unemployment. it is a disaster. >> but on the other hand, everybody understands that long-term, the kind of deficits cannot continue. so there has to be -- i mean politically -- i ask you to put on your political hat. the president and the democrats have to acknowledge that long-term that has to be addressed while saying short-term it would be a disaster. >> more than that. the way you start addressing it long-term is rebuild, clean energy and infrastructure and get the engine going again. >> investments in education and human capital. >> human capital, get the engine going again and, yes, you deal with the long-term problems that we have as a demographics of this country change. but let's not let, frankly, the right and the big corporations use the excuse of a financial crisis that they caused to now devastate a whole set of social insurance programs that you need most in these kind of tough times. >> i think everybody should go to our websit
> if you read your history, you know austerities plunked the depression deeper. 21% unemployment in greece. ireland, the poster child back up to 15% unemployment. it is a disaster. >> but on the other hand, everybody understands that long-term, the kind of deficits cannot continue. so there has to be -- i mean politically -- i ask you to put on your political hat. the president and the democrats have to acknowledge that long-term that has to be addressed while saying short-term it...
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we're becoming the greece of out-of-control spending. [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] >> it in no way does that. >> stephanie: shut down that argument. the spending graphs of who -- >> nonsense. >> also, greece is falling apart because of the austerity programs implemented by the inf and the world bank. >> stephanie: we have references on that. they're wrong wrong wrong on everything. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: i'm flabbergasted how wrong they are. 17 minutes arrive the hour. you know what else flabbergasts me? being able to carbonate soda in 90 seconds. >> my friend had a soda stream. i got to do it. it is amazing. >> did you karate chop? >> no but it is amazing seriously. >> stephanie: you're such a sad little man. >> i don't get out much! >> stephanie: new way to enjoy great-tasting soda made fresh at home. >> i'm flabbergasted. >> stephanie: flabbergasting how good it is with bourbon. you can make it fresh at home. everybody loves a soda stream. producer geeks kids, grad parents. -- grandparents. it is smart. transforms water into fresh fizzy soda. you saw how quick. there it goes. >> we needed
we're becoming the greece of out-of-control spending. [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] >> it in no way does that. >> stephanie: shut down that argument. the spending graphs of who -- >> nonsense. >> also, greece is falling apart because of the austerity programs implemented by the inf and the world bank. >> stephanie: we have references on that. they're wrong wrong wrong on everything. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: i'm flabbergasted how wrong they are. 17 minutes arrive the...
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they've got turkey and greece to agree on something. [laughter] that's a major accomplishment, hey, stop using the drone strikes because they kill civilians. and of course one of the very few countries that approve? the united states of 62% to 28% say they're totally in favor. in a different poll, should we use drones to give you traffic tickets? no no, don't do that. all of a sudden they disapprove because that's about them and not people dying in yemen or pakistan. let me bring everyone in again. michael hastings, i'll start with you. you know the significant conferencesconsequences of these drone strikes. 21 children and 14 women killed, civilians. could you do it? could you be president knowing sometimes that would happen? >> there are other reasons to be president other than drones. look, i think this is a tough tough question. you know, my formertive years over the past decade have been in these war zones where i sort of witnessed a lot of--a lot of tragedy from the act of violence whether it's suicide-bombings or airstrikes or mi
they've got turkey and greece to agree on something. [laughter] that's a major accomplishment, hey, stop using the drone strikes because they kill civilians. and of course one of the very few countries that approve? the united states of 62% to 28% say they're totally in favor. in a different poll, should we use drones to give you traffic tickets? no no, don't do that. all of a sudden they disapprove because that's about them and not people dying in yemen or pakistan. let me bring everyone in...
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measures in france, england and greece, the dominoes keep falling in europe. mitt romney should take heed. >>the guys in the middle class the guys in the lower end got screwed again. >>i think you know which one we're talking about. the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that. ♪ chase has tried to hard to seem the good banker, so charming, so gracious, yet all the while he has been lobbying, pushing and weeding aim semblance of reform on wall street. he sugared off the cataclysm of 2008 as just something that happened like the weather. no reason for structural reform. well, now we have reasons, at least $2 billion of them. and it's clear that chase has had this dissorted incentives that have ruined other big companies. in addition to all that dimon sits on the board of the new york federal reserve bank. the very organization that is supposed to oversee his bank. the organization that regulates what his bank does. the group that he thinks should relax the rules for thinks kind of gambling. so her
measures in france, england and greece, the dominoes keep falling in europe. mitt romney should take heed. >>the guys in the middle class the guys in the lower end got screwed again. >>i think you know which one we're talking about. the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that. ♪ chase has tried to hard to seem the good banker, so charming, so gracious, yet all the while he has been lobbying, pushing...
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athens greece, stuffed animal made in canada. then my favorite, 2002, the olympics where the olympics that mitt romney was in charge. the beret not only made in canada but it's a flipin' beret. the story of how they're made in china is outraging everybody. let's let abc explain part of it. >> they are the men and women of team usa. when they march into opening ceremonies they'll be wearing red, white and blue, but we learned that it's not all that american. >> made in china. >> china china. >> cenk: everything is made in china. the politicians will take this opportunity to be outraged. >> i think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a pile and burn them. >> you think they would know better. >> they should be made in eric. >> cenk: i'm outraged, oh, come on. anyway now olympic committee spokesperson unfortunately named patrick sandusky, had this to say. >> people have been forming opinions whether or not where the uniforms should be made or not made, but they're made by an iconic american company that supports our team a
athens greece, stuffed animal made in canada. then my favorite, 2002, the olympics where the olympics that mitt romney was in charge. the beret not only made in canada but it's a flipin' beret. the story of how they're made in china is outraging everybody. let's let abc explain part of it. >> they are the men and women of team usa. when they march into opening ceremonies they'll be wearing red, white and blue, but we learned that it's not all that american. >> made in china....
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. >> one of scott walker's many excuses is blames greece. the guy takes no accountability for anything. if you want to blame these shadow forces of what is going on in wisconsin, we should look at europe. cut social programs, give tax breaks to corporations from out of state, and look what has hand. wisconsin is prof that these policies don't work, that cutting programs for the middle class, and the safety net for the middle class at the very time that it needs it the most just doesn't work, and wisconsin has 28 days to make up its mind and i think you'll see a different governor come june. >> analogizing calling your state a petri dish, not a good metaphor. >> yeah. >> graeme zielinski thanks for spending some time with us tonight. >> thank you, governor. >> president obama may have missed a opportunity on civil rights, but now he has a much bigger one. you are welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. thanks current fans. [ train whistle blows ] [ ball hitting paddle ] [ orbit girl ] don't let food hang around. yeah! [ orbit trumpe
. >> one of scott walker's many excuses is blames greece. the guy takes no accountability for anything. if you want to blame these shadow forces of what is going on in wisconsin, we should look at europe. cut social programs, give tax breaks to corporations from out of state, and look what has hand. wisconsin is prof that these policies don't work, that cutting programs for the middle class, and the safety net for the middle class at the very time that it needs it the most just doesn't...
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. >> very small sample of god -- >> bill: greece is known for having a lot of things. >> right now greece is known for not being able to do math. we created math. we just wanted to be able to follow through on it. we had a good run. first through centuries was good. >> bill: i think the arabs created math. >> hey, let's not get crazy. i'll get my dad on this phone right now. >> bill: peter ogborn and dan henning. >> good morning. >> with cyprian bowlding our videographer gets the big wave. we don't let him talk. so joe biden uncle joe. >> uncle joe. i have a couple of uncles like joe. >> bill: let joe be joe. i think he is at his best when he's just -- they let biden be biden. he was out yesterday on the campaign trail and this latest auto ad that mitt romney has put up claiming that g.m. and chrysler, which they say is a big lie, are going to send their jobs from ohio to china. >> right. >> bill: joe biden ripped them yesterday. >> that's what the ad says. it is an outrageous lie. a lie. a lie that is so deceptive and so blatantly untrue that the chrysler corporation, including the chair
. >> very small sample of god -- >> bill: greece is known for having a lot of things. >> right now greece is known for not being able to do math. we created math. we just wanted to be able to follow through on it. we had a good run. first through centuries was good. >> bill: i think the arabs created math. >> hey, let's not get crazy. i'll get my dad on this phone right now. >> bill: peter ogborn and dan henning. >> good morning. >> with cyprian...
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and the inflation, the republicans have put warning we're about to turn into greece because president obama was doing too much to boost the economy. economists like myself warned that we were on the risk of turning into japan because we're doing too little, and and to a level that except misery the japanese never had to endure all of this. the best bet--giving obama advice--to do the harry truman do nothing cropping which in reality has blocked proposals that would have made 2012 a much better year than it ever will be. we've already seen the republican economic future and it does not work. thank you paul krugman. >> people don't understand history. it's not emphasized enough. if they knew what happened in 1937, and see the pattern, they would realize it's stupid to repeat that. >> and take the right lesson from greece and what is happening. >> austerity doesn't work. >> right. >> which isexcept for a handful of people like mitt romney. >> the up clinton club a clinton spokesperson clarified. i get what he meant. they were dealing with what clinton said. he said--which is probably tru
and the inflation, the republicans have put warning we're about to turn into greece because president obama was doing too much to boost the economy. economists like myself warned that we were on the risk of turning into japan because we're doing too little, and and to a level that except misery the japanese never had to endure all of this. the best bet--giving obama advice--to do the harry truman do nothing cropping which in reality has blocked proposals that would have made 2012 a much better...
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and all of that shrinking about greece and the looming debt crisis. here is john boehner and paul ryan just this weekend. >> we do not have an immediate debt crisis. >> america is still a step ahead of european and japan. partly because of our resilient economy and our world currency status. >> michael: there you have it. but it turns out americans saw right through it. a poll out today from the hill shows while americans might be sympathetic to republican's ideas about lowering taxes they still trust the president to handle the economy. 65% said u.s. budget deficit should be reduced by cutting spending. but 35% said they trust the democrats more. so to regain the public's trust they have done an autopsy of the 2012 campaign. the rorpt has a lot of style but not a lot of serious substance. in it the word messaging appears 77 times technology in there 42 times, and then there is the long list of things that got no mention at also. health care inequality and others. the plan also pointed to some other issues, and no bashing poor people at all. the plan
and all of that shrinking about greece and the looming debt crisis. here is john boehner and paul ryan just this weekend. >> we do not have an immediate debt crisis. >> america is still a step ahead of european and japan. partly because of our resilient economy and our world currency status. >> michael: there you have it. but it turns out americans saw right through it. a poll out today from the hill shows while americans might be sympathetic to republican's ideas about...
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when you look at europe, you look at the difference between austerity and stimulus, greece is going off a clip. france, england, england in a double dip recession, and i think occupy did more to get us back on the right path in terms of our political discourse, and students loans. interest rates are still at zero. there is no argument to let student loans jump up to 6.8 and we're in washington wondering how to pay for it. how do you fill that gap? >> well, i just any that it's a shame that the republican party decides first of all they don't want to touch the issue. finally the president listens to young people and romney follows the president's leadership thankfully then they got to drag that terrible republican party behind them. the first thing they do is we can help kids go to college. we're going to raid the mammogram fund. so women's health is yet again extend the war on women and they are raiding--called the mammogram fund, the prevention fund for help. it is totally nuts. the democrats have a better idea. how about this our most precious resource is not petroleum. it is not oil.
when you look at europe, you look at the difference between austerity and stimulus, greece is going off a clip. france, england, england in a double dip recession, and i think occupy did more to get us back on the right path in terms of our political discourse, and students loans. interest rates are still at zero. there is no argument to let student loans jump up to 6.8 and we're in washington wondering how to pay for it. how do you fill that gap? >> well, i just any that it's a shame...
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and greece and now professor at the harvard kennedy school, and michael ohanlon senior fellow at the brookings institution and coauthor of "bending history"." will we and should we recognize the opposition forces? >> i think the obama administration needs to make a big decision. do you confer recognition on national council as legitimate authority of the syrian people. the reason for doing this, they need to push assad out as quickly as possible. he's holding on, and if something doesn't change in this equilibrium he may hold on for months on end. this war could spread in lebanon, jordan, iraq, that's not in the interest of the united states. they need to reinforce this coalition. that's one reason. the other is one of self interest. it's likely that at some point assad is going to fall. this particular group or some element of it will take over as the government of syria. we should want to have influence there given the importance of syria, and the importance of syria to iran. because if we can separate a new syrian government from the iranians that would be a major strategic advant
and greece and now professor at the harvard kennedy school, and michael ohanlon senior fellow at the brookings institution and coauthor of "bending history"." will we and should we recognize the opposition forces? >> i think the obama administration needs to make a big decision. do you confer recognition on national council as legitimate authority of the syrian people. the reason for doing this, they need to push assad out as quickly as possible. he's holding on, and if...
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still there, and a frankly as we're starting to watch the emergence of potentially serious bank runs in greece, spain, italy, we're not prepared for that -- >> this is something out of the great depression. people are lining up to take their money out -- >> they are not yet lining up -- >> they with wiring it. these days it is done virtually -- >> that's right. so the question and problem is do our regulators really have a feel for what the exposures of our institutions would be? the correlated risk on the trading december tock a greek failure. and any answer is no. >> he understood it and predicted it. josh rosner thanks as always for being with us tonight. >> great to see you. >>> coming up don't make joe biden angry, you wouldn't like him when he is angry. the viewfinder is next. >>> coming up current's exclusive follow up toe the documentary, "american jihadi." but first, mitt romney has some new campaign slogans, joe biden has some anger, and orly taitz has what might be the most poorly produced political ad in history. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, we put it in the viewfinder. ♪ >
still there, and a frankly as we're starting to watch the emergence of potentially serious bank runs in greece, spain, italy, we're not prepared for that -- >> this is something out of the great depression. people are lining up to take their money out -- >> they are not yet lining up -- >> they with wiring it. these days it is done virtually -- >> that's right. so the question and problem is do our regulators really have a feel for what the exposures of our institutions...
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according to steve chatterton the police chief up there in greece new york. now the students, themselves are harassed. >> their families are threatened. their antrorse and sisters have been threatened. we have custody of one of their cell phones. he had over a thousand missed calls and a thousand melingsz threatening him. he is 13 years old. >> i don't have a problem with that. i think that's like an appropriate pun orbitaement. that kid is lucky his parents didn't haul off and beat him. >> what is a 13-year-old doing with a cell phone? i guess kids have cell phones. okay. fine. you know, you are going to harass somethingbody and we will have people harass you and you know what it feels like. i don't think a through dropped calls on a cell phone is such a big deal. >> here is what i would say. i agree with you in spirit. i think that this punk-ass kid that has his cell phone out there should receive thousands of phone calls every day. i don't want this kid to sleep. i want the phone to go off all the time. but the problem here is they are threatening him and
according to steve chatterton the police chief up there in greece new york. now the students, themselves are harassed. >> their families are threatened. their antrorse and sisters have been threatened. we have custody of one of their cell phones. he had over a thousand missed calls and a thousand melingsz threatening him. he is 13 years old. >> i don't have a problem with that. i think that's like an appropriate pun orbitaement. that kid is lucky his parents didn't haul off and beat...
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if spain implodes if greece leaves the euro zone, you'll need a bigger dose of medicine. you should keep the powder dry until you have a better sense of how it will play out and ricochet in november. >> jennifer: i agree with you. i don't think people are paying attention in the summer. >> he did come out with a jobs plan several months ago and romney this week saying this week he has never had a jobs plan. even the other candidates are not paying attention, never mind the average voters. to see that macro-picture, it's overriding factor. >> jennifer: so just to finish up this segment here we're going to listen to a sound byte of an ad that romney put out today, which is a positive ad and i want to get your reaction after that. >> he balanced every budget without racing taxwithout raising taxes. mitt romney's strong leadership will make all the difference on jobs. >> jennifer: so, karla his actual record in massachusetts when compared to the others states is 47, as we've heard many times. but this ad, do you think it's effective? and i don't know how much is going to perm
if spain implodes if greece leaves the euro zone, you'll need a bigger dose of medicine. you should keep the powder dry until you have a better sense of how it will play out and ricochet in november. >> jennifer: i agree with you. i don't think people are paying attention in the summer. >> he did come out with a jobs plan several months ago and romney this week saying this week he has never had a jobs plan. even the other candidates are not paying attention, never mind the average...
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it happened in greece where they elected an anti-austerity parliament. in germany the coalition that merkel had in germany that was pro austerity has faltered and does not exist any more. there are huge problems. and fox news predicted that the markets would fall apart in america. they were down 28 points. it was not that big of a disaster for america. but what we're seeing in europe is what we'll have to look at here. more importantly we have cenk uygur in paris, and this is what he lived through over the past 24 hours. >> everybody is celebrating. [yelling] [cars honking] >> franÇois hollande has won! everybody is in the streets going crazy. franÇois hollande has won! >> what is really interesting is the amount of immigrants here. all sorts of north african flags up and down the streets--immigrants. and they're ecstatic that the socialists have won. those on the right wing are not going to be on their side, and it's obvious. they're ecstatic with the way the election has come out. they're out waving the french flag. people line up and people line up
it happened in greece where they elected an anti-austerity parliament. in germany the coalition that merkel had in germany that was pro austerity has faltered and does not exist any more. there are huge problems. and fox news predicted that the markets would fall apart in america. they were down 28 points. it was not that big of a disaster for america. but what we're seeing in europe is what we'll have to look at here. more importantly we have cenk uygur in paris, and this is what he lived...
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in spain and greece where the austerity has been really pushed, 24 and 21%. this is the highest jobless rate on record at least since the euro zone was created. and the analysts are blaming that on austerity measures. for invite and analysis of the current statement of the economy, i'm joined by laura tyson -- laura tyson. she is a professor at uc berkeley's haas school of business and current tv's economic analyst, and larry sbado. thank you so much for joining us inside "the war room." >> thank you. >> thank you. >> let me start with you, laura what do you think is going to be in the report on friday based upon -- the jobs report on friday based upon what you see from this adp report. >> there is no necessary link between one and the other, and also it's very very dangerous to predict friday's report. people get it wrong all the time on the upside and the down side. i would say that signs are that the recovery continues. it's continuing at a moderate pace. we have had 25 consecutive months of job growth. we have had 4 million private sector jobs created. th
in spain and greece where the austerity has been really pushed, 24 and 21%. this is the highest jobless rate on record at least since the euro zone was created. and the analysts are blaming that on austerity measures. for invite and analysis of the current statement of the economy, i'm joined by laura tyson -- laura tyson. she is a professor at uc berkeley's haas school of business and current tv's economic analyst, and larry sbado. thank you so much for joining us inside "the war...
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and to greece. ambassador, thank you for joining us. >> hi there, eliot, thank you. >> eliot: looking forward to monday, what do you expect? the motion emotions are high, willisthere any significant divide between president obama and governor romney how they would handle foreign policy. >> foreign policy is at a complex time. there are a lot of issues that they'll talk about the global recession and its impact on power, how to end the war in afghanistan, the euro debt crisis, climate change, there is a lot to talk about. i do expect that governor romney will try again to confront the president over this libya issue. but governor romney is on thin ice in my judgment. when the attacks occurred, eliot, against the conflict in bengahzi and the embassy in cairo on september 11th, governor romney issued what was a very rash and temperate statement, and he was roundly criticized for it. remember last week in the second debate he tried to pin president obama down on whether or not he had used the order coun
and to greece. ambassador, thank you for joining us. >> hi there, eliot, thank you. >> eliot: looking forward to monday, what do you expect? the motion emotions are high, willisthere any significant divide between president obama and governor romney how they would handle foreign policy. >> foreign policy is at a complex time. there are a lot of issues that they'll talk about the global recession and its impact on power, how to end the war in afghanistan, the euro debt crisis,...
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still there, and a frankly as we're starting to watch the emergence of potentially serious bank runs in greece spain, italy, we're not prepared for that -- >> this is something out of the great depression. people are lining up to take their money out -- >> they are not yet lining up -- >> they with wiring it. these days it is done virtually -- >> that's right. so the question and problem is do our regulators really have a feel for what the exposures of our institutions would be? the correlated risk on the trading december tock a greek failure. and any answer is no. >> he understood it and predicted it. josh rosner thanks as always for being with us tonight. >> g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g new 5 rpm gum. stimulate your senses. [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! tequila lime tacos. [ man ] delicious! [ male announcer ] it's festival of shrimp! for $12.99 try any two shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp. offer ends soon. we're servers at red lobster. and we sea foo
still there, and a frankly as we're starting to watch the emergence of potentially serious bank runs in greece spain, italy, we're not prepared for that -- >> this is something out of the great depression. people are lining up to take their money out -- >> they are not yet lining up -- >> they with wiring it. these days it is done virtually -- >> that's right. so the question and problem is do our regulators really have a feel for what the exposures of our institutions...
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i even had runners from greece stay at my home. it's like that mickey rooney movie, hey let's put on a race. it's the let's go meet daddy at the finish line crowd. it's not the elite sports fans crowd. >> john: our desire to point fingers should be subject behind to open our hearts and be there for those who have been wounded and killed. michael graham, i look forward to you being on the show again. >> i look forward to it. >> john: we'll wrap up the events on my thoughts of bombing and non-violence and what it means for the boston marathon in america. coming up next. >> john: we can now report that "the boston globe" confirms that the boston police commissioner has said there has been a third confirmed death from today's bombing. now ralph waldo emerson said all violence all that is greerry and repeals is not power but the absence of power. ralph waldo emerson was born in boston, a city that has seen it's share of violence. the boston massacre was the foreshadowing of the revolution. the city's crime rate has been famously documen
i even had runners from greece stay at my home. it's like that mickey rooney movie, hey let's put on a race. it's the let's go meet daddy at the finish line crowd. it's not the elite sports fans crowd. >> john: our desire to point fingers should be subject behind to open our hearts and be there for those who have been wounded and killed. michael graham, i look forward to you being on the show again. >> i look forward to it. >> john: we'll wrap up the events on my thoughts of...
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one path is represented by the president which would mean we had $20 trillion in debt heading towards greece. the president's path will continue continuing declining take-home pay. the president's path means 20 million people out of work, struggling for a good job. i'll get people back to work with 12 million new jobs. i'm going to make sure we get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program, but by getting them good jobs. america is going to come back, and for that to happen, we have to have a president who can work across the aisle. i was in a state that was 87% democrat. we had to learn to work across the aisle. washington is broken. i know what it takes to get this country back. this nation is the hope of the earth. we have been blessed by having a nation that's free and prosperous thanks to the contributions of the great estrogen ration. a torch for freedom, hope, and opportunity. now it's our turn to take that torch. i'm convinced we'll do it. we need strong leadership. i would like to be that leadership i'll work with you in an open and honest way. i would like your support t
one path is represented by the president which would mean we had $20 trillion in debt heading towards greece. the president's path will continue continuing declining take-home pay. the president's path means 20 million people out of work, struggling for a good job. i'll get people back to work with 12 million new jobs. i'm going to make sure we get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program, but by getting them good jobs. america is going to come back, and for that to happen, we have...